ASIC

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told a Parliamentary committee it has seen little improvement in the delivery of non-compliant life insurance adv...

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed that it and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority are working towards having the life insuranc...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that it would be folly to remove the Australian Securities and Investments Commission from the Australian Public Service....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has appointed the former chair of APRA and the ACCC to the special panel appointed to probe the Commonwealth Bank....

Financial planning

A Government-appointed panel has backed giving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission greater powers to ban miscreant financial services executives, but no...

Superannuation

Subscale super funds make up 30 per cent of modern award listings and the weakest performing fund returned 2.7 per cent over 10 years, according to the FSC....

Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has affirmed ASIC’s licence cancellation for Mark Power and associated companies....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has disqualified New South Wales-based SMSF auditor, Kathleen Whittle....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission staff are likely to leave their public service salaries behind to embrace financial services market rates....

Policy & Regulation

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission report has found that financial planning groups are mostly meeting their obligations with respect to professional inde...

Superannuation

ASIC has outlined new requirements for the disclosure of fees and charges superannuation and managed investment funds....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing for breaches among several hundred call recordings from call centres selling direct life ...

Policy & Regulation

The big four banks have agreed to specific contractual changes with ASIC to eliminate unfair terms from their agreements....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that the pool of advisers at risk of churning life/risk policies is as few as 50 people....

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